All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily.
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- the God-Emperor Leto II, from "God Emperor Of Dune", by Frank Herbert
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The Nihilist: She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named 
Written by me. Posted by a friend. Re-blogged by me.
MC Graham on Sarah Palin: her fall from grace, her stubborn persistence in the media, and how Liberals aren’t hating her and general cultural regression enough. Salient bits:
Fortunately, most people don’t like Palin. She lost a considerable amount of political capital after her humorlessly self-important response to the shooting in AZ, which was a rather odd mis-step for her to make. Public tragedies are like a religion for Americans.
On Palin’s botching of the story of Paul Revere:
I think that she honestly doesn’t know the Paul Revere myth, or couldn’t recall the details of a straightforward children’s story under pressure, which is sad, and should disqualify her from working on a small-town early evening news program let alone as Commander-in-Chief, but her word salad, vaguely populist speech patterns are nothing new. Actually, they are simply what she is.
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Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
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Il n’est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu, ni César, ni tribun
—Eugène Pottier
I was all tumblr’d out, and then school started so I kind of fell off. Then, I kept getting email notifications about some quote I put up like 4 months ago getting a ton of reblogs so I decided to resurface…although I don’t expect to be on here as frequently as I was before (you never know tho—this place can drag you right in =P).
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Quakers in Penn?!?! No way =P. Yeah, my sister lives in a part of PA that has a bunch of Mennonites. Seeing those horse-drawn carriages by the side of the highway is always pretty neat.
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